Ivy Gates Plantation, 1856 – Troy, SC

Troy, South Carolina – Located a few miles west of Troy, Ivy Gates Plantation is an antebellum survivor. There’s history all around this home in the Long Cane Community. Once I stumbled on this house, I got curious to find out more about it. Interesting history here!

The house took about 2 years to build. The builder, Henry Gates of Atlanta, was building a couple of other large buildings in the area (we’ll see another of his buildings tomorrow). The house was being built for Dr. Asbury Tatum Wideman (1824-1884). Dr. Wideman didn’t practice much medicine, instead he focused on agriculture. At one time Ivy Gates Plantation was 1,300 acres.

Ivy Gates Plantation still has original boxwood gardens

The home stayed in the Wideman Family for several generations. The Wideman’s were a prominent family in the area, as we can see by this article about Dr. Wideman’s death in 1884: